Last Updated on Monday, 19 March 2018, 21:03 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) on Monday- March 19, 2018- began dismantling a fence which it said was found to be encroaching on its reserve near the Lama Canal. Only the first of the two-layered zinc fence was removed. The utility company said in a statement that the fence ...

Last Updated on Monday, 19 March 2018, 16:32 by Denis Chabrol A major fire was Monday afternoon averted in the Water Street, Kingston compound of the Guyana Power and Light Inc. as a result of quick action by staff of Power Producers and Distributors Inc; backed up by support from the Guyana Fire Service, officials said. Fire fighters were investigating ...

Last Updated on Monday, 19 March 2018, 12:22 by Denis Chabrol General Secretary of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Amna Ally on Monday shrugged off suggestions by sections of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) that it should leave her party’s dominated A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). “We don’t have any deteriorating relations,” she told Demerara Waves Online News. ...

Last Updated on Monday, 19 March 2018, 11:07 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s Police Commissioner, David Ramnaraine on Monday justified the killing of three suspected bandits on the Georgetown seawall road although only two of them were armed and one gun was recovered. “The specific details can always be debated but at the end of the day the evidence is there ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 18 March 2018, 18:29 by Denis Chabrol Chairman of the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute (TTI), Dion Abdool Saturday night urged Guyanese to learn from his country’s mistakes as this country prepares to become a major oil producer. Addressing the Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc.’s (TIGI) annual fund-raising dinner held at the Pegasus Hotel, he recommended ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 18 March 2018, 14:30 by Denis Chabrol The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) appears increasingly impatient at the way it is being treated by the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-dominated A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), saying that it was no longer prepared to tolerate being bullied; a situation that Sunday prompted at least one executive member ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 18 March 2018, 8:51 by Denis Chabrol The University of Guyana’s Department of Computer Science is laying the groundwork to shift away from teaching Information Technology to the teaching of computing from the primary school level with the aim of fostering innovation and creativity,  a co-promoter of a week of activities said. “Beyond Word and Excel, ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 17 March 2018, 23:39 by Denis Chabrol At least 20 workers of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) have been tested with worrying levels of mercury due to defective systems at the Guyana Gold Board which that entity says have been fixed. GGMC Commissioner, Newell Dennison said that medical treatment would be provided to staff ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 17 March 2018, 18:38 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s Lands and Surveys Commission (GLSC) on Saturday warned persons encroaching on government reserve near the Lama Canal that legal action would be taken if they do not remove their structures. Commissioner/Chief Executive Officer of the GLSC, Trevor Benn said his entity has been informed that several residents of  ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 17 March 2018, 13:58 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Police Force has eased clamping down on ‘wrapped’ minibuses- those that have been resprayed in designs- until a meeting with minibus operators, ‘A’ Division Commander, Assistant Commissioner, Leslie James said Saturday. “We have tempered the exercise. We are no longer engaging in the exercise until we have ...